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It has been reported that a cyberattack slowed county government to a crawl Wednesday in North Carolina’s most populous metro area as deputies processed jail inmates by hand, the tax office turned away electronic payments and building code inspectors switched to paper records.

News broke yesterday that Mecklenburg county in the US state of North Carolina has been hit by a ransomware attack, leaving county official to process jail inmates by hand, and forced to turn away electronic tax payments.

News has surfaced that the man behind the HBO hack earlier this year has been identified as being Behzad Mesri, an Iranian national, who is linked to the elite Iranian cyber criminal group Charming Kitten.

It was reported yesterday that the phishing research and defence firm PhishLabs published new analysis showing that phishers have been adopting HTTPS more and more often on their sites. When you get a phishing email or text, the sites they lead to—that try to trick you into entering credentials, personal information, and so on—implement web encryption about 24 percent of the time now, PhishLabs found.

News has broken that hackers have stolen more than $60 million worth of bitcoin from Nicehash, a Cryptocurrency mining site. NiceHash lets people offer computing capacity for bitcoin miners to mine digital currencies. Cryptocurrency miners work out complex mathematical equations to add cryptocurrency transactions to decentralized public ledgers called blockchains.

The last day the public can use their paper £10 notes is 1 March 2018. After this date they can be exchanged at the Bank of England in person or by post. Some retailers, banks and building societies may still accept these notes; however this is at their own discretion.

London, UK. In the midst of Brexit Britain, Attest has carried out research to find out about consumer perception of British brands and products. Does a ‘Made in Britain’ label make a difference to consumer brand perception?

Attest, a brand intelligence and consumer insights platform, surveyed 2,000 British and 2,000 American people, and these are some of the findings:

3 in 4 people are more likely to buy a product with a ‘Made in Britain’ label

‘Quality’ is the most associated term with ‘Made in Britain’, followed by ‘stylish’, though 46% of people expect British-made products to be expensive

“Britain’s reputation for style and quality, both within the UK and overseas, is evident in our findings”, says Mark Walker, Marketing Director at Attest. “Rather than Brexit diminishing Britain’s reputation for consumer brands on the world stage, it appears to be presenting an opportunity to redefine ‘Made in Britain’ both at home and abroad.”

John Noble, Director of the British Brands Group says: “British brands are a strong source of pride, but also of our international competitiveness, and it is encouraging to see this reflected in this research. British brands help shape perceptions of the UK around the world, with the Nation Brand Index rating the country 3rd out of 50 for the strength of its image and reputation. Strong brands will play a key role in our future success.”

About Attest

Attest is a Market and Brand Intelligence platform, helping connect businesses to a network of 70 million consumers across 80 different countries. They work with brands including Deliveroo, Fever-Tree, Twitter, Uber and Unilever to help them measure, manage and maximise their brand equity, get closer to customers, and win market share. They are backed by leading venture capital firms including Oxford Capital and Episode 1. Learn more at: www.askattest.com

London, UK. In the midst of Brexit Britain, Attest has carried out research to find out about consumer perception of British brands and products. Does a ‘Made in Britain’ label make a difference to consumer brand perception?

German security researcher Sabri Haddouche has discovered a set of vulnerabilities that he collectively refers to as Mailsploit, and which allow an attacker to spoof email identities, and in some cases, run malicious code on the user’s computer.

Security researchers have discovered a massive collection of personal data belonging to more than 31 million users of the popular virtual keyboard app, AI.type, after the information was accidentally leaked online. It is possible for anyone to download the sensitive data without requiring a password. A misconfigured MongoDB database is thought to have been the reason for the exposure of AI.type’s entire 577 GB database